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The continuing advances in the development of Wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of geo-referenced data. Wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information. Consequently, new challenges and opportunities have been provided to the GIS research community.

This Symposium is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). It is the 8th in a series of successful events beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations between East Asia and Europe, with the most recent event held in Cardiff, UK. We invite submissions that address both theoretical and technical issues of W2GIS. Reports on implementations are particularly welcome.Suggested topics include, but are not limited to as long as they address issues related to W2GIS and location-based services:

Conceptual and logical models
Data management and retrieval
Geographical search engines
Web services
Query languages and interfaces
2D and 3D information visualization
Exploratory cartography and interfaces
Data mining
Security and usability
Location-based services
Peer-to-peer computing
Cyber-geography
Semantic geo-spatial web
Mobile & Wireless GIS
Telematics and GIS Applications
Ubiquitous GIS
Personalization and adaptation
Wayfinding and navigation

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval). Each paper must be written in English, should be limited to 6000 words, and submitted in PDF file. Each paper must include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating subject classification. The full names and addresses of the authors should be printed only on the title page. The author who is the contact person should be identified as such. Acceptance of a paper means an obligation for at least one of the authors to attend the conference and present the paper. A selection of best papers will be considered for a special issue of a journal publication. Authors can refer to the conference web site for detailed formatting instructions, submission information and to contact symposium chairs.

Important Dates
June 16, 2008 - Full paper submission
August 25, 2008 - Notification of acceptance
September 15, 2008 - Camera-Ready copy due

Symposium Chairs
M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
X. Li, East China Normal University, China
C. Ray, Naval Academy Research Institute, France

Steering Committee
M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
C. Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
M. Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA
K.J. Li, Pusan National University, Korea
T. Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan
C. Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee
A. Abdelmoty, Cardiff University, UK
S. Anand, University of Nottingham, UK
T. Badard, Laval University, Canada
A. Bouju, University of La Rochelle, France
T. Brinkhoff, IAPG, Germany
K. Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.L. Damiani, DICO - University of Milan, Italy
R.A. de By, ITC, The Netherlands
M. Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
A. Edwardes, University of Zurich, Switzerland
R. GBBing, Fernuniversit BgUB Hagen, Germany
B. Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Y. Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
C.S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
H.A. Karimi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
B. Kobben, ITC, The Netherlands
J. Komarkova, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Y.J. Kwon, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea
S. Li, Ryerson University, Canada
M. R. Luaces, University da Coruna, Spain
H. Martin, University of Grenoble, France
G. Mc Ardle, University College Dublin, Ireland
P. Muro-Medrano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
S. Mustiere, IGN, France
S. Nittel, University of Maine, USA
B.C. Ooi, National University of Singapore
G. Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
D. Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
P. Rigaux, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
M. Schneider, University of Florida, USA
C. Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
S. Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
K. Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan
Y. Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
M. Tomko, Universtiy of Zurich, Switzerland
M. Ware, University of Glamorgan, UK
R. Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
S. Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia
O. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
A. Zipf, University of Bonn, Germany

Local Industrial Chair
L. Ye, Shanghai Galileo Industries, China

Local Organizing Committee
L.Z. Yu, East China Normal University, China (Co-chair)
J. Shu, East China Normal University, China (Co-chair)
L. Yu, Shanghai Ubiquitous Navigation Technologies Ltd, China
J.P. Wu, East China Normal University, China
M.H. Ji, East China Normal University, China
Y.F. Wang, East China Normal University, China